Part 15

Footnote 516:

_Sc._ Narcissus; Narcisus, H. See the story in Ovid, Met. iii. 356 sq.

Footnote 517:

_Cf._ qui par grant necessite requiert autrui; la voix qui est demouree, cest que de gens souffraiteux est il assez demoure ne ilz ne peuent parler fors apres autrui, H.

Footnote 518:

The fourth philosopher in the “Dicta”; Salquin, Add. MS. 16,906, f. 7b; Zaqualkin, Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 10b.

Footnote 519:

To helpe, MS.

Footnote 520:

Prov. xxii. 9.

Footnote 521:

_Sc._ Daphne (Ovid, Met. i. 452 sq.); Damne, H.

Footnote 522:

To theyme, MS.; ou temps, H.

Footnote 523:

_Sc._ how.

Footnote 524:

An omission by homœoteleuton; _cf._ estre tous iours present aux ordres des anges auec les benois esperis assister a la gloire du conditeur, regarder le present visage, _etc._, H. The quotation is from Hom. xxxvii. in Evang. (Migne, lxxvi. 1275).

Footnote 525:

Psal. lxxxvi. 3.

Footnote 526:

_Sc._ Andromache’s.

Footnote 527:

Petite paille, H.

Footnote 528:

La brusle du feu de sa soubtille circonspeccion, H.

Footnote 529:

1 Thess. v. 19.

Footnote 530:

Ninus, H.

Footnote 531:

_Sc._ Nimrod.

Footnote 532:

Le roy Ninus, H.

Footnote 533:

De Singularitate Clericorum (Migne, iv. 837). The Latin text is somewhat loosely rendered.

Footnote 534:

Cest vne sotte fiance, H.; adversaria est confidentia, St. Aug.

Footnote 535:

Estre sauf entre les morsures, H.

Footnote 536:

And—vnhurte, not in H. or Lat.

Footnote 537:

_Sc._ laugheth; rit, H.

Footnote 538:

Psal. xxxvi. 3; Bonum est confidere in Domino, _etc._ (Psal. cxvii. 8), H.

Footnote 539:

Ce sera quant le roy Priant ne croiras, qui tira priant, H.

Footnote 540:

See above, p. 100.

Footnote 541:

Shepe, MS.

Footnote 542:

_Sc._ Othea; he, MS., both here and a few words later on.

Footnote 543:

Sa mort, H.

Footnote 544:

Sermo de conversione ad clericos, ch. viii. (Migne, clxxxii. 843).

Footnote 545:

En espies, H.; auxpiez, Roy. MSS. 14 E. ii. f. 327, 17 E. iv. f. 313; adolescentibus in insidiis est, St. Bern.

Footnote 546:

Eccl. xiv. 12; tardabit, H.

Footnote 547:

Encor te vueil ie faire sage, H.

Footnote 548:

? Stroke; le coup de vne sayette, H. and G. de Tign.

Footnote 549:

Qui met auenir, H.; qui meut a venir, G. de Tign (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 7b).

Footnote 550:

Matt. vi. 6.

Footnote 551:

The Politenes of Benoît de Ste. Maure (l. 16105) and Guido delle Colonne.

Footnote 552:

Puit estre nuisible, H.

Footnote 553:

Couuoitise desordenee, H.

Footnote 554:

Dit Ygnocence ou liure de la vilte de condicion humaine, H. The quotation is from Pope Innocent III., “De contemptu mundi,” ii. 6 (Migne, ccxvii. 719).

Footnote 555:

Sont ii. sancsues, H.; sanguisugæ, Innoc., quoting Prov. xxx. 15. Wyer’s version rightly has “horse-leeches”; and the reading “sauce-makers” is inexplicable.

Footnote 556:

Tim. vi. 10.

Footnote 557:

A luniversaire (_sc._ l’anniversaire) du chief de lan des obseques de Hector, H.; vnyuersarie, Wyer.

Footnote 558:

Amer, H.

Footnote 559:

In ep. Joannis ad Parthos tract. ii. (Migne, xxxv. 1994).

Footnote 560:

Et sa concupiscence, H.

Footnote 561:

Amer, H.

Footnote 562:

1 Ep. Joh. ii. 15.

Footnote 563:

Perciez doultre en oultre, H.

Footnote 564:

_Sc._ Augustine.

Footnote 565:

Susde, MS.; ne nul en sa force ne se doit fyer, H.

Footnote 566:

2 Cor. iii. 4, 5; tanquam ex nobis, H.

Footnote 567:

Lenditement, H.; exhortacion, Wyer.

Footnote 568:

Des mauuais, H.; Barat est le cappitaine des mauuoys et ire est son gouuerneur, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 39).

Footnote 569:

iii. (les, H.) inconueniencees, MS.

Footnote 570:

_Sc._ deny; reyne, MS.; renyer, H.

Footnote 571:

Prov. iv. 15.

Footnote 572:

Paix par faintise, H.

Footnote 573:

Sa mauuaistie, H.

Footnote 574:

Psal. xxi. 26.

Footnote 575:

So H. and other MSS.; perhaps a corruption for Thyre or Tyre.

Footnote 576:

_Sc._ Ptolemy; Ptholomee, H.

Footnote 577:

Apoc. xviii. 7.

Footnote 578:

_Sc._ knights.

Footnote 579:

_Sc._ as he weaned to have returned; si comme il cuidoit retourner, H.

Footnote 580:

_Sc._ wholly.

Footnote 581:

Louez, H.; loe, G. de Tign. (Roy. MS. 19 B. iv. f. 44b); lawded ne alowed, Wyer.

Footnote 582:

Moralia, xv. 6 (Migne, lxxv. 1084).

Footnote 583:

Matt. xxiii. 27.

Footnote 584:

_Sc._ sodden; le ble cuit, H. For the same story of Ino see above, p. 29.

Footnote 585:

Frustra sibi de infirmitate vel ignorantia blandiuntur, qui ut liberius peccent libenter ignorant vel infirmantur, Bern. de Gradibus Humilitatis, cap. vi. (Migne, clxxxii. 951).

Footnote 586:

There is an omission here, _cf._ ou par negligence de les sauoir ou par parece de les demander ou par honte de les enquerir, H.

Footnote 587:

1 Cor. xiv. 38.

Footnote 588:

Si ne soient de toy despites, H.

Footnote 589:

This story is from the “Aurea Legenda” of Jacobus de Voragine with slight variations (ed. Graesse, 1846, p. 44).

Footnote 590:

De quelconques personne que ilz soient dis, H.

Footnote 591:

Hugh de St. Victor, Eruditionis didascalicæ libri vii. (Migne, clxxvi. 739).

Footnote 592:

Mais que cest que il dit, H.

Footnote 593:

Eccl. iii. 31. H. has the colophon, “Explicit lepistre Othea.”

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Table of Contents added by transcriber. 2. The #ERRATA# corrections were incorporated in the text. 3. There was no Chapter IL in the source. 4. Some sidenote numbers were missing in the source, for example “f. 15”. 5. P. 10, changed “desiderüs” to “desideriis”. 6. P. 41, changed “sow e” to “sowle”. 7. P. 47, is missing footnote 2. 8. P. 62, added an anchor for footnote 7. 9. P. 65, changed “seythyt ayens God and enprideth the selfe. That is the which dispoilleth Paradyse and clothit hell and voydeth the valu of the blode of Cryst Jhesu and submyttyth the worlde to the tharledom of the seende” to “feythyt ayens God and enprideth the selfe. That is the which dispoilleth Paradyse and clothit hell and voydeth the valu of the blode of Cryst Jhesu and submyttyth the worlde to the tharledom of the feend”. 10. Silently corrected typographical errors. 11. Except as noted, retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 12. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together at the end of the last chapter. 13. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 14. Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscripted characters enclosed in curly braces, e.g. M^r. or M^{ister}.